Summary
Trump had to reverse his aggressive tariff rhetoric after CEOs from Walmart, Target, and Home Depot warned of empty shelves and higher prices due to supply chain disruptions.
Investors reacted negatively to his threats against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, prompting a market sell-off.
Trump backtracked, expressing optimism on a China trade deal and now denying plans to fire Powell.
Global markets remain volatile, and the IMF cited Trump’s trade war as a “major negative shock” to global growth.
You are in a sense.
Americans love to separate ourselves, but George Carlin was right, this is a representative government. I voted against him thrice, and primaried for an actual left, and phone banked for Sanders on two campaigns, but Donald Trump represents the United States as it is in practice perfectly.
He’s like the United States anthropomorphized into human form. Proudly classist, proudly racist, proudly greedy, proudly willfully ignorant, proudly drunk on schaudenfreude, proudly cruel and sociopathic, obsessed with ego score and image despite being a gross, overweight pig.
Trump is this fucking place. The embodiment of everything I’ve despised about this fucking cesspool since before he was fake firing people on fake reality TV. We could not be governed more appropriately as a people given our PRACTICED values of being temporarily embarrassed millionaires dying alone undermining one another to “beat” our neighbors instead of living reasonable lives together if we tried.
Maybe we should stop being a horrible, antisocial society that tries to compete against one another in every possible way instead of cooperating before we continue to tell other places what they’re doing wrong, because this is a meth house on fire, geopolitically speaking, and has been since the 1970s. We don’t have the credibility to get caught up in other nation’s problems.
Oh also, sticks and stones but ad hominems will never hurt me.
I remember seeing Trump on the Apprentice and thinking ‘What does he even do?’ . I asked my mom, she said he was a piece of shit. I then researched him and learned that the show was bullshit.
So my lived experience tells me that your assertion is fundamentally wrong. No, Trump is not this place - and you are the perfect tool of your enemy.
If there have been decades long mis/dis-information campaigns having been waged by the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Russian and Chinese online actors, Saudi Royalty doing things like 9/11 or buying Twitter for Elon Musk, and all these things have resulted in the creation and further radicalization of MAGA - what are you?
What I see is a disillusioned individual that doesn’t recognize the justified hatred they feel for their fellow man is the exact thing these entities have been working towards. When you hear about the 40 or 60 year old plan to destroy the United States, what part to play do you think you have in it?
I’ll give you a hint, the French Revolution was very bloody. When the nobles had been dealt with, who do you think the people with the guillotines turned on? Each other.